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73 F. App'x 758

Zavaher v. Ashcroft

U.S. Courts of Appeals

Decided September 5, 2003

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U.S. Courts of Appeals · decided 2003-09-05

Relies on Efe v. Ashcroft · Chun v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Decided 2003-09-05

PER CURIAM. *

¶1 Aziz Zavaher, a citizen of Iran, petitions for review of an order from the Board of *759 Immigration Appeals’ affirming, without opinion, the immigration judge’s decision to deny his application for asylum and withholding of removal. Zavaher contends the BIA erred by upholding the IJ’s credibility determinations and by failing to give weight to his own documentary evidence and corroborative testimony. The IJ determined that Zavaher failed to present a credible application for asylum after viewing Zavaher’s demeanor and examining inconsistencies and implausibilities in Zavaher’s testimony and application.

¶2 “We give great deference to an IJ’s decisions concerning an alien’s credibility.” Efe v. Ashcroft, 293 F.3d 899, 903 (5th Cir.2002). In this regard, we have made it emphatically clear that we “will not review decisions turning purely on the immigration judge’s assessment of the alien petitioner’s credibility”. Chun v. I.N.S., 40 F.3d 76, 78 (5th Cir.1994) (quotation omitted). Based on our review of the record, we conclude that the IJ’s decision is supported by substantial evidence and the record does not “compel! ]” a contrary conclusion. Id.

¶3 DENIED

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¶4 Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.

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